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Respirology Acting Director：HASHIMOTO, Naozumi (Associate Professor)

We accept patients with various conditions and have made extensive clinical achievements

We provide medical care for a wide range of pulmonary and pleural diseases including lung cancer, bronchial asthma, pneumonia, and respiratory failure.


Medical Care System

With 12 full-time doctors (academic personnel) and seven part-time doctors, we provide medical care in the outpatient clinic every day in three examination rooms (one room in the outpatient clinic for new patients and two rooms for specialized respiratory outpatient clinic). Number of beds: 41. Respiratory endoscopy (bronchoscopy): twice a week.

Target Diseases

Thoracic malignant tumor (e.g. lung cancer, pleural mesothelioma), bronchial asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), diffuse pulmonary disease (e.g. interstitial pneumonia, sarcoidosis), pulmonary infection (e.g. pneumonia, pulmonary tuberculosis, pulmonary mycosis), acute and chronic respiratory failure, etc.

Strong Fields

Multimodality therapy for lung cancer and malignant pleural mesothelioma (comprehensive treatment in cooperation with Thoracic Surgery, Radiology, and the Department of Clinical Oncology and Chemotherapy), endoscopic diagnosis of the respiratory system, diagnosis and treatment of diffuse pulmonary disease, treatment of bronchial asthma, treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary infection.

Clinical Results

Clinical results for fiscal year 2020: 1,029 new inpatients; 15,437 outpatients; 330 patients who underwent bronchoscopy.

Specialized Outpatient Clinic

Every day, we provide medical care in three examination rooms of the specialized outpatient respiratory clinic (one examination room in the outpatient respiratory clinic for new patients). We provide medical care in the smoking cessation outpatient clinic (once a week; in cooperation with Cardiology and Department of General Medicine).

Advanced Medicine and Research

A multicenter clinical study of chemotherapy for lung cancer, genetic testing related to adverse reactions due to anticancer drugs, diagnosis of and pathological research on various respiratory diseases using inhalation-induced sputum, endoscopic ultrasound under bronchoscopy, and argon plasma coagulation for endotracheal malignant tumors.